Life — July 12, 1928 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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mm Our natal day, July 4, was appropri- ately observed in our town, wil flags, bunting, soft drinks, reading the Declara- tion, etc. esepill Wambsganss is” playing second base with our nine again this summer, to ‘he sorrow of all the baseball telegraph operators around the American Associa- tion circuit. ***Lum Shanks, genial driver on the Broadway bus line, thinks some of taking his Airedale along with him on the trips for company, since the fare went up to fifteen cents. & Charlie Curtis of Topeka is doing a Jot of practicing before a dummy micro- phone these warm days. Stick to Luckies and save the voice, Charlie, say we. ***Lawyer Jim Reed hasn’t announced his plans for the summer as yet. C. H. Thompson. Omaha Hexay Scanprett of Chicago, president of the Milwaukee Railroad, was renewing old ties last week. x Important meeting of the Rogers for President Club at the Den Monday night. Come one! Come all! ***Judge D. M. Vinsonhaler is thinking about a trip to his farm in the Ozarks soon, to resharpen his hogs. ***The Rev. Oliver M. Adams read his play, “Worse than Hell,” to his flock so they could suggest a new tile. They said leave it. ***Rumor has it the new passenger air- planes will be like Pullmans. Ye Ed shud- ders at the thought of being brushed off by the porter. ***C, W. Morton, Jr., has decided to spend the summer in Washington State, Mexico City or New Brunswick, Canada, or he may go to Evergreen, Colo. ***The Rev. Ralph E. Bailey has accepted a pastorate at Cambridge, Mass., Rabbi Frederick Cohn is spending the summer in Europe and the intellectuals will just have to do the best they can. B. F, Sylvester. WENT OVER BIG Wicks: I've arrived, man! Shake hands with me! I've been waiting and hoping for this for years! Picks: What's happened? “I bought a new ue yesterday and my son wore it downtown this morning.” Previction—Mr. Hoover will not urge Republicans to hooverize on votes. SS SS= THE POLITICAL FRONT The Nominees and Others Tue Repvustican and Democratic nominees for Presi- dent present as fasci- nating a contrast in personalities as American politics has afforded in a generation. The ori- gin of both Herbert Hoover and Alfred E. Smith was hum- ble, one rural, the other urban. Their paths, however, diverged at birth. Mr. Hoover took a degree in engineering at Stanford and embarked upon a most profitable practice of his profession in various parts of the world. Gov. Smith attended St. James Parochial School, sold newspapers and at thirteen started work in his father’s trucking business. Mr. Hoover did not enter politics until 1921; Gov. Smith has been in politics all his life. Mr. Hoover has never been elected to any public office; Gov. Smith has been eighteen times a candidate and seventeen times elected. Mr. Hoover has come into contact with other cultures and other civ- ilizations; Gov. Smith's entire experience has been within the limits of one state. Mr. Hoover is difident and _ negative; Gov. Smith is expansive and_ positive. The one is fifty-four years of age; the other fifty-three. The great majority of politicians within the Republican party did not wish to nominate Mr. Hoover for fear he would not win. The great ma- jority of politicians within the Democratic party wished to nominate Gov. Smith be- cause any other candidate would unques- tionably lose. eee Tue Democratic Convention at Hous- ton, Texas, was more enthusiastic, but less interesting, than the corresponding Republican show at Kansas City. There was never any question of Gov. Smith's nomination, not even when embattled Methodist and Baptist women began all- day prayer mectings against the selection of a wet. Convictions and prejudice were compromised and abandoned 11 “The morning mail, sir, seems to be circulars and advertisements. Shall I destroy them?” “Ah—no—I'll take them to business with me. We may welcome someone any day.” comicbooks.com